Original Word: ἐπόπτης, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: epoptés
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-op'-tace)
Short Definition: an eyewitness
Definition: an eyewitness, spectator, looker-on.STRONGS NT 2030: ἐπόπτης

ἐπόπτης, ἐπόπτου, ὁ (from unused ἐπόπτω);

1. an overseer, inspector, see ἐπίσκοπος; (Aeschylus, Pindar, others; of God, in 2 Macc. 3:39 2Macc. 7:35; 3Macc. 2:21; Additions to Esther 5:1; ἀνθρωπίνων ἔργων, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 59, 3 [ET]).

2. a spectator, eye-witness of anything: so in 2 Peter 1:16; inasmuch as those were called ἐπόπται by the Greeks who had attained to the third (i. e. the highest) grade of the Eleusinian mysteries (Plutarch, Alcib. 22, and elsewhere), the word seems to be used here to designate those privileged to be present at the heavenly spectacle of the transfiguration of Christ.

eyewitness.

From epi and a presumed derivative of optanomai; a looker-on -- eye-witness.

see GREEK epi

see GREEK optanomai

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